“Cool Breeze Concerts regret to inform you that Ozzfiesta is cancelled.

Like you, we were very excited about the event. However, Ozzy is having surgery, scheduled for May, following his South American tour. He requires at least four weeks of recovery time. We are very disappointed that we need to cancel.

We will be offering refunds which will be processed in the next 4-6 weeks. If you decide that you would still enjoy an all inclusive vacation at the Hard Rock, Riviera Maya, Mexico please send us an email, and we can make the arrangements.

We apologize for any inconvenience and hope that you understand the circumstances surrounding the cancellation.”

The Ozzfiesta was scheduled to take place on May 27th at Riviera Maya’s Hard Rock Hotel.

JAKE E. LEE is clearing the air about songwriting credits during his stint with OZZY OSBOURNE, something that’s obviously been bothering him for more than 30 years according to ultimateclassicrock.com.

Lee joined Osbourne’s band just before 1983′s ‘Bark at the Moon,’ replacing late guitarist Randy Rhoads. When the album appeared, all lyrics and music were credited to Osbourne — in direct violation of an agreement Lee says they had going into the sessions.

“I was told from the get-go, ‘[If] you write part of the songs, you’ll get writing credit, you’ll get publishing. That’s part of your deal,’” Lee told Eddie Trunk in a new interview (via Blabbermouth). Later, however, after he recorded the final guitar track, “They said, ‘Ah! We have the contract for you.’ And in it, it says, specifically, ‘Ozzy Osbourne wrote all the songs. You had nothing to do with any of the writing, you have no claim to publishing and you cannot say so publicly.’”

When he balked, he says Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy’s wife and manager, told him he’d have to accept the new terms — or else his contributions would be erased. “She says, ‘Because if you don’t, we’ll give you a plane ticket, you go back home and you stand in line and you sue us. In the meantime, we have all your tracks, we’ll get another guitar player, he’ll redo your tracks, and you’ll have nothing,’” Lee added.

‘Bark at the Moon’ became a Top 20 hit album, going triple platinum, but the success always left a bad taste in Lee’s mouth. “The only reason I’m saying it now is because that was just mean — that was mean,” he said. “What am I gonna do? Really? Am I gonna say, ‘Fine. I’m going home. Take my tracks off. Some other guy will get all the credit for playing guitar, and I still have to try to sue you for the rights?’ It would have been just … not a good decision.”

Lesson learned, Lee said he got everything in writing before returning to work on Osbourne’s 1986 follow up, ‘The Ultimate Sin.’ “I refused to do anything until I had a contract in front of me,” he said, “promising me writing credit and publishing.”

Lee ended up with co-writing credit on eight of ‘The Ultimate Sin”s the nine songs, though not its breakout hit ‘Shot in the Dark.’ He’s since founded a new band called Red Dragon Cartel.

Ozzy Osbourne thinks he’s taken part in more unusual studio collaborations than people know about – but admits he can’t remember for sure, reports Classic Rock.

His solo career is on hold while Black Sabbath focus on their final album and tour. The frontman this week said he hoped original drummer Bill Ward would be involved.

But there’s a chance that the next thing his fans hear might be along the lines of his 1994 duet with Miss Piggy or his 2005 cover of Stayin’ Alive, based on Dweezil Zappa’s 1991 version.

Ozzy tells Esquire: “Believe me, I’m not a big Miss fucking Piggy fan. You’ve got to be careful about what you do. Whatever you put on a track, somebody somewhere will put it out someday.

“I don’t remember everything I recorded, but you’ll hear it. When I was fucked up all the time I did some crazy shit, you know?”

His most successful one-off was Close My Eyes Forever, the duet he wrote and recorded with Lita Ford in 1988. He explains: “She was being managed by my wife. I went to the studio and it half got written. I went back to England the following week, and my wife phones me and says, ‘You know that song you were writing?’ I go, ‘What song?’ She says, ‘Lita wants to work it out with you.’

“So I fly back to LA and do the song. I said, ‘You know what, Lita? You can have it. I don’t want nothing from it.’ It turned out okay – I was pretty happy with the end result, and she was too.”

BLACK SABBATH are to record a final album together, Ozzy Osbourne has exclusively revealed to Metal Hammer.

The heavy metal legends will team up with producer Rick Rubin once again to record the follow-up to 2013’s hugely successful 13 album.

Speaking to Classic Rock at the end of 2013, Ozzy, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler were hesitant about the possibility of making one final Sabbath album – “I don’t know if it would be the right thing to do,” Iommi admitted.”But who knows. The history of this band has taught me to never say never” – but frontman Ozzy now says that the band will begin work on the album next year.

“The whole Sabbath experience this time around was great,” says Ozzy. “We all made friends, we didn’t fuck around, we all knew that we had a job to do, and we did it. It was a lot of fun. So we’re going to do one more album, and a final tour. Once the dust settled after the last tour we started discussing the idea, because we were getting asked about it all the time. I said to Sharon ‘What’s going on? Because if there’s no more Sabbath I want to get on with my own thing again’ and she came back and said ‘Let me look into it.’ Three weeks later I asked her about it again, and she said ‘Oh, I still have to talk to so and so…’ and I said ‘Sharon, I ain’t fucking 21 any more, if we’re going to do it I want to do it before I’m 70!’ Time isn’t on our side! So she made the call and came back and said ‘Yeah, the record company wants another album.’ I believe Rick Rubin is going to do it with us again.”

Although the trio have no new material written for what will be Sabbath’s twentieth studio album, Osbourne anticipates that sessions will begin early in 2015.

“It’ll be sooner rather than later,” the singer insists. “Obviously a lot of it is coming down to Tony’s health, he’s obviously got his cancer treatment, but we’ll get onto it next year. I don’t know if we’ll be writing in England or LA, but I’ll fly to the fucking moon for it if I have to!”

The world is reeling from the death of comedian and actor Robin Williams, and among those grieving the Oscar winner is Ozzy Osbourne. The Prince of Darkness once told VH1 Radio Network’s Dave Basner how great Robin was when Ozzy‘s wife, Sharon, was sick in 2002, according to blabbermouth.net.

“I’m forever in debt to Robin Williams, because when Sharon was diagnosed with colon cancer, I’d seen the film ‘Patch Adams’ and it was a very… I don’t know if you ever saw that film he made; it’s about a guy who was a male nurse or something in a hospital and he was working with terminal people, and I thought, what a great thing to do, and he’s a very funny man, Robin Williams. I got my agent to contact him and ask if he’d be so kind as to come around and talk to my wife, which he did. It was very nice of him.”

In a 2002 interview with National Enquirer, Sharon spoke about being surprised by Williams. “I was in bed when he came by, half asleep and a little woozy from some of the medication the doctors had given me to take,” she said. “Suddenly, there’s a knock on my bedroom door and I say, ‘Come in.’ And there’s Robin Williams standing in front of me. Well, I thought I must be dreaming. In fact, I thought I was hallucinating from the drugs I’d been given! I couldn’t think of what to say, so I said, ‘Does Ozzy know you’re here?’ Then Robin got in bed with me and said, ‘Shhh! No, he doesn’t, and don’t tell him!’ Well, that just cracked me up. I was in bed with Robin Williams. I started laughing hysterically. For the next two hours, he just cuddled me.”

Robin Williams died on Monday (August 11) at the age of 63 from an apparent suicide.
As previously posted, Williams started his career as a stand-up comic, first achieved fame as the star of the TV sitcom “Mork And Mindy”, then delivered a string of iconic performances in movies like “Good Morning Vietnam”, “Moscow On The Hudson”, “Awakenings”, “Dead Poets Society”, “The Fisher King”, “Good Will Hunting” — for which he won an Oscar for “Best Supporting Actor” — “Mrs. Doubtfire”, “Insomnia” and many more.

Sharon tweeted yesterday that “the entire Osbourne family is grieving the loss of a kind, funny, generous and talented man.” She told the Enquirer, “He was just the nicest, most giving guy in the world — he did so much for me.” Added Ozzy, “Forever and a day, I will love that man.”

Ozzy Osbourne headlined the Hyundai Card Citybreak music festival in Seoul, South Korea last night (Saturday). The two-day event, which is being held August 9-10 at Seoul World Cup Stadium, also includes performances by the alternative rock band HOOBASTANK, former BON JOVI guitarist Richie Sambora, Japanese signature rock band LOCOFRANK, groove metal band COCOBAT and local punk rock band YELLOW MONSTERS.

Fan-filmed video footage of Ozzy’s performance at Hyundai Card Citybreak can be seen below, as posted by blabbermouth.net:

The first edition of the Hyundai Card Citybreak rock festival took place in 2013 and was attended by over 75,000 rock fans. It featured a lineup that included headliners MUSE and METALLICA, IGGY AND THE STOOGES, LIMP BIZKIT, ASH, THE USED and WHITE LIES.

For more information, visit citybreak.superseries.kr.

Ozzy will release a solo career retrospective titled “Memoirs Of A Madman” on October 7.

While it remains unclear whether BLACK SABBATH will record another studio album, Osbourne appears certain to continue with his solo career. Ozzy’s touring guitarist, Gus G., told Noisefull in a recent interview, “Ozzy wants to do another solo album, that’s for sure. As far as I know, he has a contract for three more solo albums, so I don’t know when he will finish them, if he’ll do them and if I’m going to be a part in it, but I certainly know that he wants to do one more solo album.”

Ozzy‘s last solo studio effort was 2010’s “Scream”.

His first album under the SABBATH banner in 35 years, “13”, came out in June 2013 and topped both the U.S. and U.K. album charts, later winning a Grammy Award as well.

There’s no timeline on when Ozzy might record his next solo effort. Ozzy has indicated that he would also like to record a new SABBATH album.

OZZY OSBOURNE / FIREWIND guitarist GUS G. and Birmingham, AL rockers LYNAM will be teaming up for a string of west coast dates in October, issues Century Media Records. GUS G. will be supporting his debut solo album, I Am The Fire, and LYNAM will be supporting their newest release, Halfway To Hell. The dates kick off October 15th in Los Angeles, CA at the world famous Whisky a Go Go and mark GUS’ first solo band appearances in North America.

GUS G. comments: “I’m very excited to play my first solo shows in North America! Expect a killer set-list with songs from my debut solo album ‘I Am The Fire’, as well as material from FIREWIND, OZZY and some surprises! I’m putting a killer band together for this short run and Mats Leven will be handling vocal duties!

Also, I’m very happy to team up with LYNAM– they’re a killer hard rock band, and their singer Jacob Bunton co-wrote with me and sang a song on ‘I Am The Fire’. See you all out there!”

LYNAM’s Halfway To Hell was produced by Jacob Bunton and Jason Elgin (COLLECTIVE SOUL, MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER, TERRIBLE THINGS) and released on December 17th, 2013 via New Ocean Media. A video for the first single, “Cold”, can be viewed here: